Alex Samad wrote: > > Cool, I have attached my little script, but basically this is what it does > > does a 2 pass mencoder (just copy the audio stream) > then I pull out the audio work with sox > > and then use mencoder to put the audio back into the avi (or .divx) > > on my reading up on this I found that divx allows for dolby digital (ac3 ?), > could I use the wav file and change it to ac3 and then use mencoder to merge > it > back in ? I am presuming its not worth the effort because of the original > source is only mp3
The quality of lame preset=standard is extremely high. You can certainly use ac3 if you like, it's just very slightly less portable... Using dx50 and mp3 makes it playable on more targets. BTW, as far as I know, the dx50 switch only affects the header of the avi file, and doesn't change the video encoding parameters at all from the "lavc default". But it makes a huge difference when it comes to playing the file on bran-dead windoze based players. The only thing I might suggest adding to your script would be to add nr=50 to lavcopts, and to make use of eq2 when you need to add some "punch" to the video... For example: -vf eq2=0.9:1:0:1.05 Will punch up the video a bit for a small viewing device. nr=50 is to make your file smaller, though you might want to drop to nr=10 if the source is REALLY perfect. In either case they will dramatically shrink the file size. Remember to tell everyone how helpful the transcode list is with mencoder questions ;^) phil
